Permethrin on fruiting trees and bushes

[don1357]

And to respond to myself, I see some labels that recommend to spray after petal fall…

I also saw this on another thread:

@alan

It is difficult to argue against religion and food beliefs. I’m a licensed sprayer so you can take this with a grain of salt.

You can wait a couple of weeks to harvest and the active ingredient will pretty much have broken down from produce.

Understand that huge groups of conventional farmers and other pesticide applicators have been monitored for many years in at least two studies I’ve seen with the farmers being an average age of 50 (all adult ages, but that’s the mean). Many of these farmers spent their entire lives on conventional farms and as soon as they were old enough pulled mist sprayers that created a fog of far more dangerous pesticides than permithrin. Such farmers live in this fog for much of the growing season if they don’t own a tractor with filter capabilities (that would only be recent, in any case). Comparing the health histories of 70,000 farmers and their wives over a period of 15 years they found that compared to the average citizen in the states they live they suffered MUCH LESS from cancer (all forms of cancer combined) live much longer and are much healthier.

This particular study was carried out by the U.S. government through Republican and Democrat administrations and published in a respected and peer reviewed journal. You will likely assume it is fraudulent and sponsored by chemical companies, but if you are curious, send me a private message and I will e-mail you the study. Epidemiological studies of this kind cannot be cherry-picked without actually having scientists lie about the data. It’s pretty clear cut.